Really? First I have to go to my library, look up the book and log in, then I have to go to Overdrive to log in and place the order. Then I have to go to Amazon to log in AGAIN to actually get the book. Wow… great implementation… very user friendly.

Brianne, I noticed in the video “most books in the collection are compatible with Kindle.” Is there any explanation we can give patrons as far as which ones are not, and why?

Over on Amazon’s Kindle discussion area, someone has already found books that are available in Amazon’s Kindle store, and available through Overdrive, but in Overdrive they aren’t getting the option to choose the Kindle version. The example was Morgawr by Terry Brooks. Is there some incompatibility or licensing issue with that title, or it is perhaps that someone already has the Kindle version checked out so it isn’t currently available?

Could you make closed captioning available on this video? I have a deaf patron who is excited to use ebooks with her Kindle and Kindle for iPhone app, and I’d like to be able to send a video demonstrating the steps. All the voice-over explanation in this video will not be accessible to her until captioning is added.

Hi Rose, thank you for your suggestion! We support efforts to increase accessibility for patrons, so we have added closed captioning to this video on YouTube. Simply ask your patron to click the “cc” button in the YouTube player. Thank you again for your interest and suggestion!

Carol,
Your half right. It’s a snap if you have wireless but a few extra steps if you have the original kindle which works on 3g. In that case when you get to the amazon page after you sign in read the clip on how to transfer files to the kindle.It’s three steps and 30 seconds.

How quickly unappreciative and ungrateful some people have become! They’re FREE!!! And the very first comment is a complaint!?? You just have to hate people sometimes! Goodness!! You too, #8! Can’t follow instructions? *facepalm*

Hi Brianne – I work for the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and we offer our cardholders OverDrive downloads. Overall, I think that the video is very good, but we’ve identified an issue that has concerned our staff and users. Apparently, the Kindle device currently only allows a single open Internet browser. If you use the Kindle to search the Library’s OverDrive site, select and then go to checkout an e-Book, you are not able to access the amazon site because at this point a new browser window needs to open. Perhaps a disclaimer at the beginning of the video saying that you need to search the OverDrive site from a PC or laptop, excluding a Kindle search as an option, would provide greater clarification. Thanks for your consideration.

downloading is so easy! no need for tutorial. go the nassau.lib.overdrive.com find an available ebook, put it your cart and checkout with kindle! it took me 30 seconds to get an ebook! hooray to the public libraries & amazon. (nook has had it for a long time).

My Kindle is 3G and if it weren’t, it would be easier to download a library book. I think the whole thing is complicated and I don’t like putting in my library card number each time. I wish we could just set up an account with a password to make it easier. I know, I know. It’s library book and it’s FREE and I certainly appreciate that. But I have to attach my Kindle’s USB cord and go thru myriad steps to get the book actually onto my device. There should be something faster and easier.

On my 3G Kindle, I have to jump thru myriad hoops to get a library book downloaded. I have to attach my cable and copy and paste something and go through so many steps that I’m unwilling anymore to TRY to download anything from KHCPL on it. I’ve gone twice to the library to ask for help and those staffers also have to go through many steps to do it and when I get home, I forget how to do it. I’ve spent at least an hour this morning trying to get a library book. It’s extremely complicated and I really hate it. Anyone else having problems?
Kathy

Hi John, you can visit your local library to check out a title. You will need to sign in to your Amazon account and “Get for Kindle.” The title will then by synced to your Kindle via Wi-Fi. Remember to sign out when you are finished. Enjoy! -Brianne

Brianne, as the primary Kindle user at our library, I’ve been assigned to put together a tutorial for the rest of the staff. I was going to use your video, but do you also have a handout put together I can give out to everybody as well? I’ll put one together if you don’t, but I figured there was no reason to if one already exists! 😉 Thanks!

From your library’s website, there are two easy ways to search for Kindle titles. Use the Advanced Search option and choose the Kindle format as your search criteria or click on the “Now Available – Library eBooks for Kindle” graphic located in the left navigation pane of the site.

I sometimes borrow Overdrive ePub and Adobe e-books from my local library for my iPhone. I now need to get a device with a bigger screen and want to get a Kindle, but it sure looks like the majority of e-books provided in Los Angeles are not in the Kindle format but in the Adobe formats, which my library website tells me are not compatible with the Kindle. (I am interested in getting the Fire.)

So, it seems I can read Adobe content on iPhone, Android, and Windows 7 phones and on iPads, but not on Kindles. Is this correct?

Hi there, the Kindle Fire will of course support Kindle versions of eBooks. With the OverDrive Media Console app (http://overdrive.com/Software/omc/) you can also check out EPUB eBooks. I hope this helps. -Brianne

I have a 3g Kindle, I can only download library books to my computer by UBS to the Kindle..My problem is I can’t finding the books after I check them out to my computer..When I plug in to USB from my computer to the Kindle, I can’t find the books? I get to Amazon, click on the book then nothing happens.

I am having trouble getting connected to the library to download books to my Kindle. Kindle registered to my husband, Irwin B Geller, who purchased Kindle for me on Amazon. Help me connect to the library with my card and my email address. Thank you.

Hi,
A friend of mine lives in a different city and when she uses her library card she has more book choices on the overdrive app then I do. Are the selections different for every library? Or, I’m I doing something wrong?

Hi Colleen- Glad you’re enjoying your library’s eBook collection via OverDrive. We work with more than 19,000 libraries and schools around the world, and each library in our network chooses which eBooks and audiobooks to offer in their digital collection. The entire OverDrive catalog includes more than 800,000 titles, but most partners stock a few thousand titles. -Mike

I have tried to load Overdrive on my Kindle, but I tried through my comptuer and Kindle doesn’t recognize that it’s there. I tried through my Kindle and I am unable as you need to open a second window from the Amazon site in order to load Overdrive and it doesn’t have that ability. How can you load Overdrive on a Kindle??